Parents Of Players Research Articles

Ab. No. 84 Athlete Mindful Skills Associated With Reaction Time Among Recreational Football Players: An Analytical Study

Introduction: To examined the association between mindful skills and reaction time on sports performance among recreational football players. There has been less attention, to mindful skills and sports performance within an adolescent population. Mindful skills have been important factors in the area of sports with a focus on improved performance across recreational populations. Methods: 69 football players age between 10-16years old, minimum playing football as last 2 years and 8-10 hours per week were included. History of fall in last month, any surgery performed by last 3 months, diagnosis with psychometric disorders, upper limb injury due to which reaction drop test cannot be performed were excluded. An observational analytical study was conducted at different sports academy in Ahmedabad using purposive sampling. Written consent was taken from parents of players. Each individual performed reaction drop test to assess the reaction time and mindfulness sport inventory was taken to assess the athlete mindful skills. Data analysis was done using SPSS version 20 and Microsoft excel 2007. Prior to statistical tests, the data was screened for normality. Sample size was >50 in Kolmogorov–Smirnov test was used to check normality. Spearman correlation was used between reaction drop test and mindfulness sport inventory. Results: Total 69 participants, completed the study. Mean age of participants was 13.58±2.58 years. Moderate negative association between mindful skill and reaction time in recreational football players (r=-0.596, p<0.05). Conclusion: Present study concluded that fast reaction time; brain reacts more quickly in players. That is helpful for the adolescents while playing football as well as increased playing capacity and also can be prevent injury and become more resilient against potential damage in the players. Implication: Mindful skills intervention programmed in the curriculum may be a feasible approach to improve reaction time and performance level in recreational football players.

Exploring the Ranking Culture of Korean Female Professional Golfers

PURPOSE This study aimed to explore the ranking culture of Korean female professional golfers under the assumption that side-effects such as performance degradation and sports desocialization result from the culture.METHODS To collect data, semistructured, open-ended interviews were conducted with eight former KLPGA Tour players, and the data were analyzed through the inductive analysis method suggested by Hatch (2002).RESULTS Our findings were the following: (1) There has been an oppressive culture regarding the salutation attitude among Korean female professional golfers. (2) The ranking culture of Korean female professional golf players formed a background of voluntarily noticing seniors from junior players. (3) As part of subduing juniors who go against the hierarchy culture, the phenomenon of group bullying by senior players was found. (4) There are players who influx the KLPGA tour after their tour career in foreign countries becomes uncomfortable with the ranking culture of Korean female professional golfers, or in worse cases, they leave the tour because of maladaptation. (5) Rather than protesting or raising issues, parents of players, especially those of junior players who have suffered damage against the ranking culture tend to accept the practices and endure disadvantages.CONCLUSIONS Follow-up studies on ways to improve them and additional studies on ranking culture and side-effects that may occur between athletes in other sports are required to restore the ethics of Korean sports and ultimately normalize them.

Factors affecting the concussion knowledge of athletes, parents, coaches, and medical professionals.

Objectives:To determine the predictors of knowledge and awareness of concussion symptoms and outcomes through a survey of athletes, parents of players and coaches in sports settings in Canada.Methods:A cross-sectional survey of athletic communities in Canada was conducted. Respondents’ concussion knowledge score consists of responses to questions about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of a concussion and the timing of return-to-sport post-concussion. The percentage of correct responses was defined as the “identification rate.” The extent to which participant factors affected the scores was examined by univariate and multivariate analyses.Results:Respondents were able to identify a mean of 80.6% of symptoms. Cognitive symptoms were most commonly known, and mental health symptoms associated with concussion were least known, and health professionals, coaches, and those with a personal history of concussion had the highest levels of overall knowledge. Language, age, educational level, annual household income, and traumatic brain injury history were good predictors of better concussion knowledge.Conclusion:Those designing and implementing interventions aimed at concussion management and prevention should ensure that younger, lower income, lower educational, non-English-speaking persons, and those without experience of traumatic brain injury or concussion be specifically accounted for in the design and implementation of interventions to prevent and treat concussion and mild traumatic brain injury.

An Investigation Into Stakeholders’ Perceptions of the Youth-to-Senior Transition in Professional Soccer in the United Kingdom

The youth-to-senior transition in professional soccer within the UK is challenging, yet previous work has focused on perspectives of a limited range of within-sport stakeholders. We conducted semistructured interviews with coaches (n = 12), sport science support staff (n = 10), and parents of players (n = 6), exploring their perceptions of transition demands, resources, and barriers. Emergent themes highlighted role-specific support provision and that athletes progress through a period of adaptation, requiring a diverse set of characteristics and resources (e.g., knowledge of the transition process, social support), developed through a number of preceding transitions.

Something about Baseball: Gentrification, “Race Sponsorship,” and Neighborhood Boys’ Baseball

This article examines the factors behind a story of racial accommodation in an unlikely space, one formerly renowned for racial violence and exclusion. The space of boys’ baseball provides an opportunity to understand how class and racial changes in a formerly White, working-class neighborhood of Philadelphia, unfolded over a 30-year period. With gentrification, came new class and racial encounters on the local baseball field. The author’s research included participation as a “bench Mom” over a decade, 2 years of ethnographic fieldwork involving observations of more than 100 games in two boys’ age divisions, and 40 in-depth interviews with coaches and parents of players. Factors identified as central to the smooth racial integration of the space are the centrality of baseball to neighborhood “character,” a demographic shortage of White neighborhood children, the “racial sponsorship” of the first Black middle-class children, a growing external accountability toward new Black politicians, and the unique character of baseball itself.